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OrionX, a Chilean exchange backed by Tether, has announced its permanent closure. An audit revealed that over $7 million in client assets had been transferred to addresses outside of custody.
According to Ember tracking, whale address 0x0392a opened a long position of 32,000 ETH at an average price of $2,487 two days ago, valued at approximately $80 million. Earlier today, it further increased its position by adding 13,000 ETH, bringing its total long exposure to 45,000 ETH (approximately $109 million) at an average entry price of $2,486. Due to the market pullback, this position currently holds unrealized losses of about $3.35 million, with a liquidation price of $2,251.
Odaily News, SlowMist Security Team disclosed that the cross-chain bridge project Allbridge suffered an attack on August 19, 2026, with losses of approximately $190,000. Notably, this attack was not executed instantaneously—the attacker began laying the groundwork nearly a month in advance, bypassing the verification mechanism through forged cross-chain messages.According to SlowMist's analysis, on July 26, the attacker directly called Circle's MessageTransmitterV2.sendMessage function on the Polygon chain, constructing a cross-chain message disguised as CCTP-style, claiming a transfer of 1 million USDC, despite no actual USDC burn operation occurring. Subsequently, Circle generated a valid attestation for this complete message following standard procedures.Approximately 24 days later, on August 19, the attacker waited for the Base Router to receive a genuine CCTP deposit, bringing its balance to approximately 191,000 USDC, then launched the attack just 6 seconds later. Using the previously forged message and attestation, the attacker called Allbridge's receiveCctpMessage function. Due to the project's lack of critical validation, the system mistook the fraudulent cross-chain message for a genuine deposit and recorded a 1 million USDC credit.Subsequently, the attacker borrowed approximately 809,000 USDC temporarily via an Aave flash loan to match the Router's balance with the forged amount, then utilized the internal credit record to call the transfer function, ultimately moving out approximately 999,000 USDC (after deducting a 0.1% fee). After repaying the flash loan and fees, the attacker netted approximately $189,800 in profit. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in Allbridge's failure to verify the identity of the cross-chain message sender and receiver, as well as its failure to confirm whether USDC was genuinely minted or whether the balance actually increased—instead directly trusting the amount and message hash data constructed by the attacker.SlowMist emphasized that on-chain message verification does not equate to actual asset arrival. Cross-chain protocols must not only verify message authenticity but also ensure the message source is trustworthy, confirm the receiver is Circle's official TokenMessengerV2, and only record assets after confirming actual minting and balance changes. This incident once again highlights the security risks in cross-chain bridges' message verification and asset settlement processes.
Odaily News - CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated on the X platform that the altcoin market has recently shown clear signs of recovery, with market structure undergoing changes, and "Altseason" may have entered its early stages. Data shows that from August 19 to 22, the total market cap of altcoins increased by approximately $215 billion, surging over 24% in just 3 days, pushing the total altcoin market cap back above $1 trillion.Darkfost pointed out that mid- and small-cap altcoins have performed the strongest in this rally. Due to their lower circulating market caps, these assets are more sensitive to capital inflows, while also carrying higher two-way volatility risks.Data from the Binance platform further reinforces the signals of an altcoin market recovery. Since last November, approximately 80% to 85% of altcoins have remained below the 200-day moving average (200-DMA), but currently 56% of Binance-listed altcoins have climbed back above this key technical indicator, suggesting the market may be entering a new cyclical phase.Darkfost believes this trend reversal is linked to a series of positive cryptocurrency signals recently released by Trump. On August 19, Trump stated that the U.S. would "massively purchase Bitcoin" and urged Congress to push through the CLARITY Act, while claiming his administration had ended previous unfriendly policies toward the crypto industry. These remarks boosted market sentiment, and against a backdrop of low trading volume and reduced selling pressure, substantial capital began flowing into the altcoin market, driving gains across multiple sectors simultaneously.Darkfost noted that from a historical perspective, the current broad-based altcoin rally is typically viewed as an important signal of the early stage of altseason. However, he also cautioned that the market has entered overbought territory in the short term, and investors should be wary of periodic pullbacks. If the overall upward momentum continues, new investment opportunities may still emerge down the road.
Odaily News: Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes announced that it will begin gradually winding down operations after running for over three years. The company stated that it had been continuously seeking to resolve and lift the sanctions imposed on NoOnes, but ultimately failed. The sanctions caused the platform to lose key partners, and blockchain monitoring firms also flagged transactions associated with NoOnes as high-risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue normal operations. According to the plan, the business contraction began on August 17, and the P2P marketplace will close at 23:59 UTC on August 21. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat withdrawals, the gift card store, and the Bitcoin Lightning Network will also be discontinued progressively. After that, the platform will only support withdrawals, and users will still be able to log in, view balances, and withdraw remaining assets. The company advises users to complete asset withdrawals as soon as possible, no later than August 23. Previously, on January 26, 2025, NoOnes revealed that the platform had suffered a major security breach earlier that month, resulting in losses of approximately $8 million in crypto assets. CEO Ray Youssef confirmed the news after on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed the hacking incident on his Telegram channel.
Bitcoin analyst Plan B stated on the X platform that the core of Bitcoin's long-term value lies in scarcity, not short-term price fluctuations.Plan B believes that many people focus on Bitcoin's price charts, while the S2F model he uses focuses on the degree of asset scarcity. This model measures scarcity through "existing supply ÷ annual new production," where the S2F for gold is approximately 60. Due to Bitcoin's fixed total supply of 21 million coins and its predictable issuance schedule, its S2F is currently around 120 and continues to rise over time.The Bitcoin halving mechanism is an important driver of the S2F model. Approximately every four years, the Bitcoin network reduces the block reward by half, decreasing new supply and roughly doubling the S2F level, making it the core supply-side event observed by the model.Plan B emphasized that the S2F and its upgraded version, the S2FX model, predict long-term average value rather than precisely forecasting market tops or bottoms. Bitcoin's price typically fluctuates around the model's estimated value, and investors should focus on multi-year cycle averages rather than single-day price highs. Additionally, Plan B believes that as scarcity increases, Bitcoin is undergoing different stages of development, including proof of concept, payment network, "digital gold"/store of value asset, and institutional-grade financial asset. Each increase in scarcity could bring new market narratives and capital inflows.However, Plan B also reiterated that "all models are wrong, but some are useful." He stated that the S2F model is merely a tool for long-term understanding of Bitcoin's scarcity, not a trading signal or a "crystal ball" for price prediction. Although the model has withstood major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and China's mining ban, it still has limitations.
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas says the Coldcard security vulnerability enhances the appeal of spot Bitcoin ETFs, with the incident involving approximately $88.6 million in losses.
According to Korean media Daum, volatility in the South Korean stock market has recently intensified, investor risk appetite has clearly cooled, and funds are flowing back from the stock market to safe-haven assets such as banks. Due to adjustments in the semiconductor sector and stricter regulation on leveraged investment, idle funds in the South Korean stock market are withdrawing rapidly, and the market is exhibiting a phenomenon of "reverse capital migration". Data shows that as of the end of July, the time deposit balance at South Korea's five major banks (KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, Woori, NH Nonghyup) reached 973.49 trillion won, an increase of 24.09 trillion won from the end of the previous month, marking the largest single-month increase this year. Funds related to the stock market also showed significant contraction. According to data from the Korea Financial Investment Association, investor securities account deposits (idle funds for stock trading) reached a historical high of 139.69 trillion won on June 4, but as of July 28, had fallen to 107.20 trillion won, a decrease of over 32 trillion won in less than two months. The balance of credit transaction financing, representing the scale of market margin trading, fell to 33.19 trillion won during the same period, a decrease of about 4.5 trillion won from the peak of 37.72 trillion won set on July 2, a decline of approximately 12%.
according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi’s monitoring, an address opened a 4x long position on 23,300 SKHX at 14:38 today, valued at $24.67 million, with an entry price of $1,106.8. The position has now incurred a floating loss of over $1 million. Due to this morning’s flash crash, most leading positions were liquidated or subjected to ADL, and this address has become the second-largest holder of SKHX positions on Hyperliquid.
according to Lookonchain monitoring, an abnormal order briefly pushed the SKHX price below $930, triggering the liquidation of over $80 million worth of SKHX positions.Among them, trader 0xc985's long position of 2,026 SKHX, worth approximately $2.08 million, was fully liquidated, resulting in a loss of about $260,000.
CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that since the beginning of the year, Bitcoin's overall demand structure has shown weakness, primarily exhibiting two states: first, simultaneous contraction of spot and futures demand; second, a brief rebound in futures demand driven solely by speculation, while spot demand continued to shrink.
According to Odaily, a 26-year-old male trader at Hong Kong's Chee Fu Management Services Limited allegedly misappropriated HK$50 million of company funds as margin to purchase the CSOP Direxion 2x Long SK Hynix ETF using leveraged financing.Due to the double leverage of margin financing combined with the 2x leveraged ETF, the position incurred paper losses of approximately HK$150 million. The ETF had risen to an all-time high of HK$193.65 in late June, but subsequently corrected along with the semiconductor sector, falling over 72% to HK$52.58 as of July 20.The trader has been arrested by police on suspicion of theft. As the position has not yet been closed, the final loss will continue to fluctuate with price movements. (Tencent News)
According to EmberCN monitoring, a whale address continued to increase its BTC long position about 50 minutes ago. The BTC long position has now reached 1,662.5 BTC, valued at approximately $108 million.Data shows that the average entry price for this position is around $63,958, with an unrealized profit of about $1.38 million. Due to the use of high leverage for this position, its liquidation price is relatively close to the current price, at approximately $63,142.
Odaily In May of this year, Bankless founder David Hoffman publicly announced on the X platform that he had liquidated all of his ETH holdings.Due to ETH's recent strong price performance, some community users posted remarks teasing David for "selling ETH at the exact bottom." David Hoffman responded by saying: "Stop saying that. The current price of ETH is lower than my liquidation price."
Odaily Odaily News Blockchain analyst Vadim noted that Base experienced a network outage today due to a consensus bug triggered by a single invalid block. All block generation after height 47806542 ceased, halting the network for nearly two hours. Since Base utilizes a single sequencer architecture, when that node encountered an error, the entire network stopped running, with no backup block producer or other validator nodes available to bypass the fault and maintain on-chain activity. During the outage, users were unable to conduct transactions, perform liquidations, or process withdrawals.Furthermore, the network recovery process was not automated; node operators within the ecosystem had to manually restart for block synchronization to gradually resume. This is not the first such incident for Base. In August of last year, the network also experienced a freeze lasting approximately 33 minutes due to a sequencer switching failure. The single sequencer model exposes the centralization risks in some current L2 networks: while offering higher speed, the entire chain can come to a halt due to a single point of failure when the core component malfunctions.
according to Lookonchain monitoring, the BIT-linked whale holds 120,000 ETH and 500 BTC in long positions. Due to the recent market downturn, the unrealized losses currently exceed $92.5 million.
Bitcoin further declined toward $62,000 on Tuesday, continuing its weakvolatility amid a sixth consecutive week of spot ETF outflows, a hawkish shift in macro interest rate expectations, and pressure from quarter-end options expiration. Ethereum fell below $1,700 on the same day, with both BTC and ETH retreating nearly 20% over the past 30 days.This week's market pressure primarily stems from two key factors. First, the Federal Reserve maintained interest rates at 3.50% to 3.75% during the June 18 FOMC meeting, but the statement noticeably reduced dovish language, and the dot plot shifted from previously hinting at rate cuts to suggesting rate hikes. Among the 18 officials, 9 now expect at least one rate hike this year, and the probability of a December rate hike has significantly increased compared to a month ago.Second, geopolitical risks have once again disrupted the market. The previous expectation of a US-Iran ceasefire had pushed Bitcoin above $67,000, but the situation broke down during the signing ceremony on June 19, with Iran withdrawing from negotiations. Due to the crypto market's 24/7 trading, Bitcoin was the first to reflect this shock.Additionally, Deribit is set to see approximately $10.6 billion in options expire on June 26, further intensifying the quarter-end market观望 sentiment. Analysts believe that current leverage has been largely cleared, and market positioning is defensive. However, the next directional move still depends on Thursday's PCE inflation data and whether spot ETF fund flows can turn positive again.
Ki Young Ju, founder of CryptoQuant, stated that Bitcoin’s biggest current risk is not a sudden price drop, but rather the erosion of its market narrative amid prolonged sideways trading and an extended bear market. He pointed out that if Bitcoin lacks a compelling upward thesis for an extended period, demand could weaken, MicroStrategy’s premium may come under pressure, and Michael Saylor’s model—relying on capital markets to continuously accumulate Bitcoin—will become increasingly difficult to sustain.
: The SpaceX equity token on PreStocks is currently reported at approximately $115, representing a nearly 30% discount compared to the publicly traded SPCX share price.According to community feedback, the reason for this discount is that PreStocks has a 180-day lockup period, during which pre-listing tokens cannot be redeemed for actual shares (a fact that few people were previously aware of). As a result, holders now have only two options: either immediately sell at a discount in the market with very limited liquidity, or wait 180 days to redeem the tokens for actual shares at their full value. Based on current market performance, many users have chosen the former—selling at a discount.
market maker Wintermute released a weekly market analysis report stating that Bitcoin fell below $62,000 last week, with a weekly decline of approximately 14%, hitting a new low since September 2024. Wintermute believes that although Strategy founder Michael Saylor disclosed the sale of 32 BTC, drawing market attention, the scale of this transaction is negligible. The real reason for the market's weakness is the continuous reduction of positions by U.S. institutional investors and the outflow of funds from spot Bitcoin ETFs.Wintermute pointed out that the U.S. added 172,000 non-farm jobs in May, far exceeding the market expectation of approximately 80,000. Meanwhile, job openings rose to a near two-year high, and the service price index hit a new high since August 2022. Strong economic data has weakened market expectations for a Fed rate cut, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield to 4.55%, creating a "good news is bad news" macro environment that pressures risk assets.Meanwhile, the rally in AI concept stocks has shown signs of weakening, with the Nasdaq index falling 4.7% for the week and the S&P 500 recording its first weekly decline since March. Wintermute believes that the pullback in the AI sector, rising yields, and the upcoming SpaceX IPO have collectively dampened market risk appetite.In the crypto market, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have experienced net outflows for 10 consecutive trading days as of May 30, with total outflows of approximately $2.97 billion. The net outflow in May reached $2.43 billion, marking the worst monthly performance since 2026. Wintermute OTC data shows that retail funds continue to flow into U.S. stocks, while U.S. institutional investors have recently turned bearish and are leading the selling.However, Wintermute believes there are also positive signals in the market, including long-term capital gradually building positions at current price levels. From a perspective of more than one year, Bitcoin's risk-reward ratio is becoming more attractive. The report stated that the SpaceX IPO on June 12 will serve as an important barometer for observing market risk appetite. If the issuance is smoothly absorbed, it could help boost market sentiment; conversely, it may exacerbate the pressure on risk assets.